by Milton KentFiled under: NFL Fans, Sports Business and MediaWhen the Giants and Panthers line up and the Eagles and Packers go at it on Sunday, the games will have a different look -- and that has nothing to do with the new Meadowlands Stadium or the ascent of Kevin Kolb to the starting quarterback job in Philadelphia.
Both those games -- and four others -- will air on FOX, which will formally debut a new distribution pattern by which all NFL games on the network will be shot and sent out in high definition, even for older standard definition sets.
The thinking for the move came two years ago, according to FOX Sports Vice Chairman Ed Goren, as high def sets were being sold in greater numbers. The numbers then didn't warrant the change, but as approximately 60 percent of all television sets now can receive high definition signals, the time to switch was now.
"This is the future, and the future is now," said Goren. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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